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Monday, April 11, 2016

Ryan Godwin and I have a new paper - "Improved Analytic Bias Correction for Maximum Likelihood Estimators". You can download it from here. (This is a revised version, 19 July 2017.)

This paper proposes a modification of the Cox-Snell/Cordeiro-Klein bias correction technique that we've used in our earlier research (including work with Helen Feng and Jacob Schwartz). For some more information about that work, see this earlier post.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The case makers have revealed this year's theme: Socioeconomic inequity in health care use among elderly Europeans.

The case makers Pilar García-Gómez and Teresa Bago d'Uva have worked very hard on designing the case and are looking forward to the results of the participating students. Tomorrow evening the finalist will be announced.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Well, the Game is almost up on us. If you're not familiar with it, here's the overview from the EG website:

"Every year, the University of Amsterdam is hosting the Econometric Game, one of the most prestigious projects organized by the study association for Actuarial Science, Econometrics & Operational Research (VSAE) of the University of Amsterdam. The participating universities are expected to send delegations of four students majoring in econometrics or relevant studies with a maximum of two PhD students. The teams will be given a case study, which they will have to resolve in two days. After these two days the ten teams with the best solutions will continue to day three. On the third day the finalists have to solve a second case while the other teams can go sightseeing in Amsterdam. After the teams have explored the city, the Econometric Game Congress takes place. There are different interesting lecturers, who will speech about the case and the econometric methods necessary for solving the case. The solutions will be reviewed by a jury of qualified and independent professors and they will announce the winner of the Game.

The Econometric Game 2016 will take place on the 6th, 7th and 8th of April 2016 in Amsterdam."